Newspapers: Fairness in Phoenix

A few years back, a joke was making the rounds of Phoenix. Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam
asks one of his managing editors: "What did Barry Goldwater say today?" The editor
replies: "Nothing." "Fine," says Pulliam. "Put it right on page one, but keep it
down to two columns."

Times have changed. Goldwater is very cool to his old friend Pulliam
these days. And Pulliam's papers, the Arizona Republic and Phoenix
Gazette, have lost their partisan image and greatly improved and
broadened their news coverage. This week Pulliam receives the
University of Arizona's John...